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Akram Monfared Arya is an Iranian-Swedish aircraft pilot, the first woman to earn a pilot’s license to fly aircraft in Iran. She is a writer, artist and politician based in Stockholm, Sweden. However, the first female pilots in Iran were flying in the 1940s.

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (22 June 1932 – 26 October 2001) was the queen consort (Shahbanu) of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951.

Reza Niazmandand, Born in 1921, which many call him the father of the industrialization of Iran,  died at Shariati Hospital in Tehran. He alone narrates the history of Iran’s industrialization.

Historically a culturally rich country, the Iran of the 1960s had little to show for it. Many of the great artistic treasures produced during its 2,500-year history had found their way into the hands of foreign museums and private collections.

Frequently compared to New York’s Broadway and Paris’s Champs-Élysées, Lalehzar, Tehran’s historic entertainment district, and its vicinity (which I collectively dub Tulip Grove, Tehran), was surrounded by the Iranian parliament as well as a multitude of government offices, foreign embassies, diplomatic ventures, and missionary schools, along with a number of chapels, mosques, and synagogues.